Mr. Mark Griffin:

There will be a prioritisation plan agreed between the companies and the Department of Rural and Community Development. The input from that Department is vital because this is a bottom up approach. They are already talking to the local authorities and the local enterprise offices to ask about priorities in their counties and to ascertain whether a particular type of business, the schools or the business parks need to be hit first. We will have that input into the prioritisation programme. Once the contract is awarded the company will be in receipt of a subsidy from the State to make this commercially viable for them. When the contract is awarded I do not see any blockages to a quick mobilisation and a speedy roll-out to those parts of the State that have yet to receive it.